Books set in China (66)


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Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
A previously banned work based on a true scandal finds an impoverished village targeted by a blood-selling operation that leads to a catastrophic outbreak of AIDS and decimates an entire community.

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Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin EN

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Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
The Chia family experiences a decline in fortune during the Ch'ing dynasty.

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El don by Jia Mai ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
«Si se para a pensarlo —continuó el director—, un genio matemático, alguien que desde la infancia había estado en contacto íntimo con la interpretación de los sueños, un hombre que había estudiado la filosofía china y el pensamiento occidental, y que había explorado las complejidades de la mente humana, era alguien que tenía un don y había nacido para ser criptógrafo.» Rong Jinzhen es un chico fuera de lo común: educado por un extranjero en la China de los años veinte, viv... continue

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El invisible by Fei Ge ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
Esta novela breve y contundente, es la primera del aclamado autor chino Ge Fei que se traduce al castellano. El protagonista de El invisible vive en la Beijing contemporánea, donde todo el mundo está ocupado en ascender por la escalera del éxito soportando una carga cada vez mayor de bienes de consumo. Entrado en los cuarenta años, divorciado y sin hijos, vive con su hermana en un departamento en el borde de la ciudad, tratando de mantenerse a flote financiera y emocionalmente en una sociedad fuera de cualquier escala humana. En la segunda mitad de la década ... continue

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El país imaginado by Eduardo Berti ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Imbuida de una atmósfera mágica, de delicados elementos que prefiguran lo que ha de ser el país imaginado, esta bella historia nos traslada a una China de principios del siglo XX repleta de fantasmas, de bodas entre vivos y muertos, de supersticiones y ritos ancestrales. En medio de todo ello se encuentra la protagonista, una joven que vive atemorizada por el compromiso nupcial que para ella desean pactar sus padres y que, mientras, solo tiene ojos para la hija de un vendedor de pájaros ciego, la hermosísima Xiaomei, con quien inicia una tímida relación de amistad y dependencia. En sus citas e... continue

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Family by Jin Ba EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
Four generations of the Kao family struggle to live on the family compound as intergenerational conflicts arise.

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Ghost Music by An Yu EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
From the author of the "original and electric" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a vanished musician For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She gave up on her own career as a concert pianist many years ago, but her husband Bowen, an executive at a car company, has long rebuffed her pleas to have a child. He resists even when his mother arrives from the southwestern Chinese region of Yunnan ... continue

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Golden Age : A Novel by Wang Xiaobo EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
"At the time Wang was writing, novels about the Cultural Revolution tended to be fairly conventional tales of how good people suffered nobly during this decade of madness. The system itself was rarely called into question. Wang’s book was radically different . . . The idea of how to stand up to power underlies Golden Age." —Ian Johnson, The New York Times Book Review Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire forces us to reconsider the ironies of history. “Apparently, there was a rumour that Chen Qingyang and I were having an affair. She wa... continue

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Happy Dreams by Jia Pingwa EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
"First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017."

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Heart Sutra by Yan Lianke EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the unlikely love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priest At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religions--Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam--gather for a year of intensive study and training. They live in dormitories, eat at shared tables in the cafeteria, and attend lectures to learn about their own religion while also sharing in the less... continue